Show DIVERS ARE CLOSE TO MILLIONS working feet deep on ship sunk off alaska in 1900 Seattle Three million dollars in n gold P oss bibly four millions are ure nl at most within the grasp or a little band bond of men tolling in a balvage expedition which if etue uc eess ful will let set n new record in marine annuli three hundred and five feet down in the he teea they art nr wort ing only the ati strong room of the tile islander sunk year years to ago in stevens ste fan o 0 juet just south of Junca ii alaska remains to be torn tom open before the ers reach their tel goa pa they hope to break luruth ill luo ough uth the keel plaited wall within the flit next nest few weeke weeks and lift ahe treasure to the in the triumph nf of mans ingenuity and ant crance neptune ep tune working period brief the work conducted by more than a dozen seattle and olympia men hae has been ROIS going on abe summer of ida 1029 10 but the period laet last year was brief and the tile job could not be resumed until late in jane june this year star because of ail ad vree weather their Is lathat that the next will itee ee their lob oh virtually r completed for they arc are tolling day and night nt at theu task the hull bull of the li lalander lander hont about feet long has been explored thoroughly by the adlers pie elect of baggage and the like have been brought up and the preparation preparations lot the laet last assault on an the treasure etore store have been comple completed teil something new in its diving equip equipment Is being used wed instead cf of the old fashioned diving suits the men are ar employing ingenious device 1 contrived rind patented by two olympia diters carl and albert whey wiley after geors of experimenting thanks to which the direr diver hai a n mechanical 11 arm to do tit ia 1 ork work while he alts sits comfortably in to a little barrel like au ate he lie has a telephone borse hea headier dIem cc clamped to his ear por and a mouth piece hanging before him to that he tie ran can with his fallo fellow workers on the scow anchored neove the bunkert hull thui thus in the men above can binig the contraption about on the sell bottom or in the hulls bulls interior ai as the diver direct il 0 O evenly lurt lut when ship sunk the be incessant aith of fie flie tide tides and the voracious the tarl lit bf vaira ralta that li the plague of ship and dod dock jm une e eaten tway away the decks so math hat that access to the interior Is easl aas but the steel rides though rustad anil and incased with marine growth still bold together except where the ships buck back was wal broken when nhea it lilt R reef in a early in the morning of august 15 JIM 1000 sevesty lives were lost A few were rated the iliew prowling through gli the skeleton of ho flit ship have come upon whitened remain re ln aina of human to toll perhaps a acore ecore re of skeletons hive heen been found more doubt leit will be discovered disco vered when hen the ruins milos of the are |